1st Edition

Establishing a Geriatric Service

Edited By Davis Coakley Copyright 1982
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

By the early 1980s, industrialised countries had experienced a dramatic increase in the number of people who survive into old age. The provision of a high standard of health care for these elderly citizens is one of the major challenges facing health services throughout the world. Originally published in 1982, in this book experts describe the geriatric services in Britain at the time, a... Read more

Acknowledgements.  1 . Introduction: The Elements of a Geriatric Service D. Coakley  2. Assessing the Need of an Area M.R.P. Hall  3. Operational Policies J. Pathy  4. The Day Hospital J.S. Tucker  5. The Hospital Unit R. Bailey  6. Ward Furniture Equipment and Patient Clothing J. Andrews and L. Atkinson  7. The Efficiency and Quality of the Service E. Woodford-Williams  8. Attitudes, Teamwork, Co-ordination and Communication J.T. Leeming  9. Community Services for the Elderly G. Schroeder and D. Coakley  10. Developing a Psychogeriatric Service D. Jolley, P. Smith, L. Billington, D. Ainsworth and D. Ring  11. A Geriatric Orthopaedic Unit R.E. Irvine  12. Geriatric Medicine and the Computer W.B. Wright and R.W. Canvin  13. Establishing New Services: Canada as a Case Study D. Robertson  14. Teaching and Research in Geriatric Medicine J.C. Brocklehurst.  Contributors.  Glossary of Terms Relating to the UK National Health Service.  Index.

Biography

Davis Coakley